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Sunday, December 1, 2013

The Story of the 10th Anniversary Album

At the very last minute I've decided I might try and attempt another December Daily this year. Not too sure how successful I'll be. Maybe calling it a Documenting December album will be more accurate. Possibly.

This is not it of course...

When I say I decided at the last minute to attempt a DD I mean here I am
on Dec 1st and I've managed to finish the front cover but not even
photograph it, and I certainly haven't done anything inside it! So
instead I thought I'd share a different mini-album I completed earlier
in the year that I never blogged (because it was published before I ever
had a chance to get it up here!)

Back in January The Man and I celebrated our 10th wedding
anniversary. We had originally planned a trip to Japan, just the 2 of
us. But upon further contemplation of the fact I had the biggest exams
of my life pending in February, and then again in October we thought it
wiser to hold off. He still took me on a romantic weekend away though, and this album tells the story of that.

Not your ordinary album with pages, I took a little twist with this one.
The album base is all one piece of folded card with a series of pockets
into which I've placed tags and cards to pull out individually. That
allowed me to tuck in all the photos (with journaling on the back) as
well as little bits of ephemera we collected on the trip. And when
it started to get a bit bulky I tied a ribbon all around it to make sure
it stays together securely.

All the patterned papers are from the Amy Tangerine Sketchbook
collection (yep - still digging this!) I needed to keep all the
embellishments fairly flat so I've stuck with plenty of Silhouette cuts
and stickers.

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Fabulous ! Especially that adventure light bulb on the front!!! Great idea with the fold over album....you're ahead of me with the mini idea......just don't seem to get to them......still, looking forward to seeing yours on Jan 1st.......2015???!!!!:):):):))))

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I'm compelled to document my stories. I'm the self-appointed family memory keeper, taker of photographs and creator of scrapbooks! Here you'll find me blogging about my beautiful family, my crafty pursuits and my vocation as an Obstetrician in Melbourne Australia. I love them all, and there's a million stories to tell.....